Chapter 1635 — The Venerable One Perishes

" Shen Mu laughed heartily and burst out of the Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheel. He had barely freed himself when the wheel spun at furious speed and went whistling away to land behind Hao Tianzun; Hao Tianzun raised a hand and struck heavily forward, and boom, boom, boom, layer upon layer of dark Ten Thousand Dao Heaven Wheels spread out ahead of him. Shen Mu's Hongmeng Finger came killing through, piercing layer after layer of heaven-wheel divine art, passing through twenty-eight layers of heaven wheels, its power still not wholly ground away!

Hao Tianzun roared, clenched both fists, and hammered madly forward, striking countless blows in the space of a breath.

By the time the power of Shen Mu's finger was completely wiped away, his hands were drenched in blood, trembling with pain.

Shen Mu raised a hand and summoned the Tribulation Sword, standing not far from him. On the other side, Lingyu Shangzun, now familiar with the Yutianzun artifact, strode over as well. Behind Hao Tianzun's head the heaven wheel turned slowly, and his gaze flickered: "Lingyu Shangzun, if I die I will be devoured by Youdu's great blood sacrifice formation.

The Third and Fourth Young Masters of the Miluo Palace have already gathered power enough; not enough to bear their own descent, but to bring a Dao-achiever down is no difficult matter.

" Lingyu Shangzun halted. Hao Tianzun retreated step by step, a smile appearing on his face: "Lingyu Shangzun, you and we Ten Tianzuns are the same kind of people; you harbor very lofty ambitions. You did not throw in your lot with the Miluo Palace not because you distrust its young masters, but because you will not be another man's underling.

Your aim is to surpass the young masters of the Miluo Palace and become the overlord of this universe. Is that not so?

" A chill went through Shen Mu's heart.

He turned to look at Lingyu Shangzun: "Shangzun, surely you are not such a common man as that?

" Lingyu Shangzun sighed and said bleakly: "I would very much like to deny it, but such a common man is precisely what I am.

What meaning is there in merely staying alive?

One who has achieved the Dao ought to have greater pursuits, to while away the years ahead and make life interesting. " Shen Mu said in disappointment: "So you too cannot be relied upon. " Hao Tianzun halted, and from behind him came the sound of footfalls; it was the footfalls of Ling Tianzun. Ling Tianzun had come to this Zaofu Heavenly Palace.

Lingyu Shangzun's gaze fell upon her, and at once he saw that her cultivation was not high and gave it no weight, saying with a smile: "This body does not suit me; it can only be called barely serviceable, and it cannot be relied upon to carry me into the Ultimate Void and lodge my Dao fruit. " His gaze swept around, toward the fragments of Daluo Heaven and the hexagonal pillars within them. "The Fourth Young Master of the Miluo Palace does have talent, to have devised so ingenious a method of blood sacrifice. A slight alteration on my part, and the blood sacrifice will serve me. " He spread his arms wide and laughed aloud: "Once the fleshly body of Taichu descends, I shall rule this universe forever; from the azure heavens above to the Yellow Springs below, I shall have no rival!

You!

" His gaze settled on Hao Tianzun: "You and all the forces of your celestial court, submit, every one of you, and you may live. " Cold sweat broke out on Hao Tianzun's brow, and he at once perceived that Lingyu Shangzun had locked onto him; the aura was that of the pure Dao of Taichu, the Dao of Taichu of the thirty-six-fold Dao realm, a Dao realm for which even his father Taichu had dreamed and yearned! So mighty was this power that it threatened not only this body of his; even were his Dao-achieved body to arrive, it would be no match for Lingyu Shangzun!

Nor was that all; he could hear Ling Tianzun's footsteps drawing nearer to him!

Lingyu Shangzun turned his head to Shen Mu and smiled: "The Seventh Young Master of the Miluo Palace?

The Seventh Young Master may serve the master of the Miluo Palace, or he may serve me.

I am not a hair inferior to the master of the Miluo Palace. " Shen Mu laughed: "The last of the Five Primes to speak in such a manner was struck down by the master of the Miluo Palace into the fourth universe era. " Lingyu Shangzun was unperturbed: "A mediocrity.

" The pressure on Hao Tianzun grew greater and greater, sweat beading thickly on his brow; suddenly he gave a great cry and, forcing himself up against Lingyu Shangzun's pressure, fled.

The instant his body moved Lingyu Shangzun struck out with a palm. Hao Tianzun abruptly tore open the sky of Youdu, and a Guixu Great Abyss appeared before him, into which he dived.

Lingyu Shangzun's palm force followed close behind and boomed into the abyss. The void quaked without cease, blood ran in torrents, and plasma seeped from the void across ten thousand li, as though Youdu itself were bleeding.

"Oh?

He has fled into the Guixu beneath Youdu? To escape death, that shows some small ability. " Lingyu Shangzun's gaze fell upon the approaching Ling Tianzun, and he smiled: "Have you come to pledge yourself to me?

" "No. " Shen Mu shook his head: "Lingyu Shangzun, she has come to see you on your way.

I told you before: if you broke faith, I would have no shortage of ways to deal with you.

Do you remember? " Lingyu Shangzun frowned.

Suddenly Shen Mu's divine art erupted, and his opening move was the Immutability divine art hurled at him!

Lingyu Shangzun raised a hand to block, and his Taichu divine art erupted; a vast and surging power swept toward Shen Mu as he said coldly: "Seventh Young Master, you have disappointed me!

" His magic power was monstrous, pressing down so that the Immutability divine art could not unleash its might at all; that vast power could even have ground Shen Mu straight into powder and rendered his Immutability divine art wholly useless! Such was the terrifying, inconceivable power of the thirty-six-fold heavenly Dao realm of the Dao of Taichu!

Shen Mu neither dodged nor evaded; he seized the Taiyi staff and held it before him, while the five fingers of his other hand swept out as though plucking a guqin. Though his fingers passed through empty air, the sound of a zither rose.

He drove Yue Tianzun's Zaiji Void to its utmost! Boom!

Lingyu Shangzun's thirty-six-fold heaven Taichu divine art came thundering in, annihilating Shen Mu's spirit treasury until only the World Tree remained; his fleshly body was all but completely destroyed, and only the hand gripping the Taiyi staff was left!

Ling Tianzun's figure appeared before Lingyu Shangzun.

She extended a finger and touched it to the point between his brows.

"What are you doing? " Lingyu Shangzun frowned and looked down at the woman; suddenly, as if awakening to something, his face turned grave: "What divine art is this?

" Ling Tianzun said: "The divine art of the Immutability of Mass and Energy, comprehended from the Dao patterns of the master of the Miluo Palace.

" Lingyu Shangzun's brows knit tight. He turned and took two steps, then suddenly his knees gave way and his body toppled, his flesh scattering, his Dao fruit crumbling.

"So I could not match him after all. .

.

" he said in a low voice.